Zoo examples of our four new African animals

[paul78]

First the African penguin. Gives us a nice addition that is more common in zoos. Not to mention a better range of habitats we can build for these little guys.

Mixed species companions are various birds like the one in the above photo also the California sea lion. Even giraffes apparently can be kept with these little guys.

And here is another exhibit example.

 

[paul78]

Southern white rhino the largest living rhinoceros. A great addition to our zoos and offers a African rhino finally. Social and less nervous in captivity then the black rhino should make for some nice habitats.

Mixed species includes cheetah,warthog,antelope,giraffe,and zebra.

More habitat examples at various zoos

 

[paul78]

Fennec Fox are first fox species in planet zoo and another heavily requested animal.

Mixed species exhibit companions include fruit bats and aardvark. Although I couldn’t find these species in a photo together.
Exhibit examples

 

[paul78]

Meerkat finally meerkats in planet zoo. These will be fun little guys to make habitats for.

Mixed exhibit companions aardvark,mongoose, and tortoises

More exhibit examples at zoos

 

[FoxyDee]

Love the thread and great examples of enclosures, thanks paul! I cant wait to build for these animals, I look forward all 4 of them.

Also, I am totally stealing those enclosure ideas, especially the penguin one!

 

[paul78]

Thanks and me too can’t wait till Tuesday. Four amazing animals to build for in planet zoo. I always look at specific animal exhibits at different zoos when building for a animal there are some really nice exhibits out there.

 

[NZFanatic]

I'm greatly looking forward to having a small herd of white rhinos. I keep making my Indian rhino enclosures too big so it will be nice to be able to keep more than two.

 

[PeppyPepp]

Oh my, that fennec fox picture.

If I may add to this thread, my city zoo has a meerkat enclosure, it's very simple, but I always liked this little house they made for them. I can finally replicate the habitat for these little guys.

 

[paul78]

@PeppyPepp very nice habitat pic. By no means anyone can feel free to post whatever pics or anything they like on this thread. My local zoo has recently got meerkats but since covid19 I’m yet to see them.

 

[Moonfox]

I would have been terrified adding penguins with those sea lions! You’d wanna hope the seals don’t eat your penguins. Love the exhibit examples!

 

[Cocolori]

I would have been terrified adding penguins with those sea lions! You’d wanna hope the seals don’t eat your penguins. Love the exhibit examples!

Honestly I'm more nervous for the animals living with the meerkats - they can be territorial, nasty little pains sometimes although often more often to each other. Makes me wonder how they will handle the social structure for them because they usually follow the extended family model with one breeding pair but there are also common fights.

 

[AlexVonHumbug]

First the African penguin. Gives us a nice addition that is more common in zoos. Not to mention a better range of habitats we can build for these little guys.
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Mixed species companions are various birds like the one in the above photo also the California sea lion. Even giraffes apparently can be kept with these little guys.
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And here is another exhibit example.
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wow, is that an extremely overweight emperor-penuin in the backround?

 

[Swjosdotschka]

OH MY! I never saw a fennec baby before.... be still my heart. *dies of cuteness

 

[Francesca Falcini]

Ohh thanks for sharing, this is such nice inspiration! Now excuse me whilst I go back to gawking at the baby fennec and meerkats...

 

[NZFanatic]

This is the meerkat habitat at my local zoo. The backstage bit is sort of hidden in those rocks but there isn't a lot back there. Going around to the left is a habitat that sometimes has crested porcupines in it (they also can cross over to a habitat around the other side). In the past meerkats have been mixed in with the porcupines but last time I was there they weren't. The layout of the habitat is also changed often (this is from 2008, found online - it's similar now but different) which keeps the animals interested.

Hopefully the in-game meerkats will be capable of doing some decent climbing so we can create lookouts using wooden pieces and rocks. The substrate in the habitat shown is a mix of sand and gravel. They do this because in the past when they used clay the meerkats would dig burrows, but the tunnels would sometimes collapse, causing injury or death. With this substrate mix the tunnels can't be formed, but there are still plenty of hidey-holes around that can be filled with sand and debris for the meerkats to clear themselves, simulating natural burrowing behaviour.